STOCKHOLM BUILDS SUSTAINABLE: This preliminary study focuses on strengthening the City of Stockholm's work with climate-efficient and circular construction. The goal is that the preliminary study will lead to a significant step change regarding the city's ability to provide competence for the work in circular construction processes. By identifying the need for skills development in circular construction processes and planning for measures, the project serves as an enabler for the city's efforts to promote sustainable construction adapted to the requirements of the future. The construction industry is responsible for a very large share of road house gas emissions, largely due to the industry's slow adaptation to new technologies and innovative solutions to promote sustainability. The reason for the inertia is high investment costs, a certain conservatism in the industry and a clear lack of competence in sustainability throughout the entire chain of the construction process. The pre-study's problem analysis addresses the challenges of environmental impact in the construction and real estate industry and highlights the need for a transition from linear to circular construction processes as a key measure. Overall, the project aims to contribute to a sustainable future by working to enable an ambitious circular construction agenda. This is in line with the global commitments based on Agenda 2030 and the City of Stockholm's goals to reduce its environmental impact and promote more sustainable development. Circular construction processes are also key to the Stockholm region's ambitious development goal of combining growth through residential construction with green transition. Circularity in construction processes contributes to the transformation of the construction industry by shifting from linear production to circular product and material flows. This means planning and creating the conditions for maintaining and preserving the value of the resources in construction objects. The starting point is the so-called waste hierarchy, which is the basic policy for waste prevention and management in the EU and in Sweden. The City of Stockholm has an ambitious history of active action with action plans and climate and environmental commitments, integrated into the city's corporate and administrative governance. The governance includes an Action Plan for Circular Building, and since 2023, as a measure in the Action Plan, the city runs the Centre for Circularity at the Environmental Administration with the task of supporting and accelerating the city's companies and administrations' transition to circular flows. The City of Stockholm's analyses of obstacles and challenges to promote circular construction processes show that competence development will be a prerequisite for successful work. The analysis makes it clear that the development needs include a number of different professional groups throughout the entire chain of the construction process, increased awareness of circular construction, the ability to develop instructions and routines, and concrete skills in new ways of working. In the long term, circular construction can contribute to strengthening the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry and the construction industry, thereby also strengthening the long-term conditions on the labour market. Skills development in circular construction processes can thus also be expected to have clear labour market consequences by contributing to the competitiveness of today's employees in the construction sector as well as to the competitiveness of the Swedish construction industry as a whole. Region Stockholm also has ambitious commitments regarding sustainability shifts for construction and civil engineering. An important tool is the EU-funded platform Climate arena Stockholm, which works to streamline and structure collaboration around faster climate transition. The participants in the preliminary study consist of the City of Stockholm's construction companies and administrations as well as the labour market administration. The project owner is the city and the project is managed by specialists in environmental management. The partners have been actively involved in the design of the project and its objectives, and are committed to contributing to and supporting the implementation of the project. The preliminary study is also anchored with the region, which is committed to contributing to the dissemination of the results through the EU-supported platform Climate Arena. CLEAR PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND AMBITION FUTURE The feasibility study is divided into two main objectives: First, to identify skills development needs within the city to promote circular construction processes. This includes mapping out which competencies are necessary at individual and organisational level, with a particular focus on gender equality, accessibility and non-discrimination. To achieve this goal, the project plans to carry out a skills and